By Miriam Jackson –
January 1, 2020

The Israeli proper is making ready to current a plan to overthrow the Jordanian king after annexing the Jordan Valley within the West Financial institution to understand the dream of Jordan being transformed to Palestine. They goal to determine a confederation between the PA and “Palestinian Jordan” as a result of the Israeli proper is inquisitive about annexing the West Financial institution with out the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside it. Forcing them to move to Jordan.

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper revealed in late December the Israeli right-wing’s approaches and plans, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That is based mostly on the claims that Israel has main plans for Jordan, however these plans don’t embrace the identical king. That is evidenced by a number of articles and reviews written by right-wing Israeli writers this month who all current comparable justifications and outcomes, the principle of all of them is to destroy the peace treaty with Jordan.

Proper-wing Israelis imagine that annexing the Jordan Valley is a tactical operation aimed toward hitting two Israeli birds with one stone: the primary is to work to annex the West Financial institution and cancel the peace settlement with Jordan, and the second is to topple the Hashemite royal household and to embody the dream of Jordan being Palestine.
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It’s fascinating that this dream is shared by all of the Israeli proper, with all its elements and currents, as a result of they’re enthusiastic supporters of the concept Jordan is Palestine. The ruling Israeli proper has begun to detest King Abdullah II.

When King Abdullah is shamefully toppled, Israel will be capable to full its annexation of the West Financial institution and set up a confederation between the Palestinian Authority and “Palestinian Jordan”.

Furthermore, in line with the Israeli notion, when that occurs, the Palestinians within the West Financial institution will get hold of political rights in Jordan.

In line with this Israeli concept, when the Palestinian state is established in Jordan, the Palestinians can resolve their subject, put an finish to their struggling and cease utilizing armed operations towards Israel, as a result of since 1988, Palestinians within the West Financial institution have been in a position to get hold of short-term Jordanian passports.

It’s price noting that the Israeli method might contradict Jordan’s curiosity in lowering the full variety of Palestinians within the kingdom as a result of it refuses in the mean time to obtain Palestinian refugees from Syria in the best way it allowed Syrian and Iraqi refugees to hunt refuge on its soil.

Maybe such aspirational Israeli calls in direction of Jordan are inspired by the truth that the two-state resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli battle is now not sensible or life like. In the meantime, there are claims that the choice resolution is the institution of an Arab Palestinian state east of the Jordan River, which can obtain peace between Israel and Palestine. Additionally they declare that the river can be utilized to move items and merchandise from both facet, with the Israeli Jewish state on one facet and the Arab Palestinian nation on the opposite, facet by facet.

There’s one other Israeli situation of Jordan internet hosting extra Palestinians and as an alternative of the dominion changing into a Palestinian republic, they grow to be residents with full rights within the Hashemite Kingdom.

The return of Gilad Sharon after a protracted absence was noteworthy. He’s the son of the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who had robust relations with the late King Hussein, King Abdullah’s father. Gilad Sharon returned to assert that the present Jordanian ling wouldn’t dare to oppose the annexation of the Jordan Valley by Israel, as a result of Israel has him by his weak spot and the continuation of his rule relies on Israel. He additionally stated that if the king opened his mouth, Israel would flip off the water faucet and depart the dominion to go thirsty.

All these are efforts to drive the king to cancel the peace settlement with Israel and permit Tel Aviv to take away him.

King Abdullah finds himself caught between the anger of the Jordanian public and Israel. The state of affairs of his authorities has grow to be actually tough as a result of his nation’s price range is struggling, the sources of earnings are declining, the Gulf states, which have all the time been a supply of help for Jordan, have diminished their help, and hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees have flocked to the dominion in recent times.

Despite the rise of tensions between Jordan and Israel over the previous yr, safety coordination between them continues as common and the intelligence cooperation is at its greatest. This raises questions in regards to the king failing to make use of this card to stress Israel until this cooperation serves him and never the dominion.

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